I just got back from this summer’s moment of summer Zen!

This year I took advantage of a full moon that happened to coincide during the short week vacation I took in August (I took a couple weeks back in June to take youngest daughter to states as she had missed multiple excursions due to exams) with the moon just 382k km away:

This year I tried (but was not too successful, due to climatical (pretty cloudy day) and technical issues (did not quite place the camera in the right spot)), to get a sunset at my favorite beach in Ribadeo, Rocas Blancas, that, although we are on the northern coast of Spain, faces west, for spectacular sunsets:

I started at 18:07 and wrapped it up at 22:30 for at total of:

The differential photos I have this year are again not quite real as when I left it was dark so I could not get a good final pic, but here is one from about 20:11 with the tide at about 1/2 way down:

Implementation details

• Camera: GoPro HERO3+ Black Edition
• Frequency: picture every 30 seconds
• Number of pictures taken: 518
• Photo Resolution: 7 MP
• List generation: ls *.JPG >list.txt
• Video creation: mencoder -idx -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -o timelapse01-attempt01.avi -mf fps=20 mf://@list.txt

Thanks for reading and feel free to give feedback or comments via email (andrew@jupiterstation.net).